[SLE] HD problem...

From: James Hatridge (James.Hatridge_at_epost.de)
Date: 07/30/04

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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:17:40 +0200

    Hi all...

    I was given a used HD. The guy who gave it to me used a Norton program to
    write 0 and 1 all over the disk. He did this about 20 times (overkill I know,
    but it was his disk). Now the disk will not work. When I put it in my system
    the Bios can read the name and how large it is. But when I try to load Linux
    on it I get all kinds of errors. One error that jumped out at me was
    something about not being able to read the partition table.

    Is there anything I can do to restore this disk? BTW its a Fujitsu MPF3204AH,
    20.4GB.

    Thanks,

    JIM 

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